EPISODE · Apr 6, 2026 · 15 MIN
32 How the 1970s killed cheap oil
from Crude Ambition: This is the story of power · host By Seven Media
Cheap oil is dead, and the industrial world has to figure out how to survive without it. This is the episode where Japan reinvents its entire economy around conservation, France sends inspectors with thermometers into banks and offices to enforce temperature limits, and the West scrambles to break its addiction to Middle Eastern crude. Episode 32 of Crude Ambition follows Hydrocarbon Man's painful, ingenious fight to adapt to a world turned upside down.
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